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It's about time you stopped into Prioleau Grocery for their superb offerings of food at their grocery store in Hopkins.
The fresh produce available here will work well in any recipe or stand alone as a snack.
Get your noodle on! Prioleau Grocery has some of the best and affordable noodle and pasta options in the area.
This store has all the supplies you need to make a scrumptious dessert when your tastebuds are calling.
Add some produce to your next dinner plate for a delicious meal jam-packed with vitamins and nutrients.
Keep some frozen food from here on hand and pop it in the microwave or oven when you need a quick and easy meal.
For a sampling of the best meats, you'll want to head here directly without delay.
When you don't have time to grab lunch or dinner, these tasty snacks will hold you over until you can take a break.
Make sure you always have a variety of beverages on hand, especially during the warmer months. This drink is sure to take care of business.
Yogurt, cheese, milk? Do some or all of these sound great to you? Be a dairy fan and purchase some dairy products. They will keep you happy and healthy.
When the heat gets the best of you, water is more important than ever. Cool off no matter where you are with a bottle from Prioleau Grocery.
Cereal doesn't have to be just for kids. If you are looking for a quick, easy, and tasty breakfast to get out the door, pick some up today.
Take a dive and swim away with some succulent fish. It's a great source of protein for your next meal!
Don't let the amazing deals at this place pass you by. When you stop in today, you'll be able to browse an absolutely fabulous selection of vinegar and oil that can mean transformative changes to your cuisine.
Spruce up your meals with a variety of seasonings and spices on hand.
If you're looking for a great coffee or tea beverage, the team at Prioleau Grocery will help you out.
Who's hungry? A frozen entree will fool anyone's palate, so why waste time cooking up a storm?
Prioleau Grocery serves up the most delicious freshly-baked bread in town. Head on over and pick up a loaf today.
You'll be amazed at how delicious the canned food is when you purchase it from Prioleau Grocery.
For your convenience, there are plenty of parking spots for you to make use of during your visit.
With a promise of freshness and quality, Prioleau Grocery in Hopkins makes it easy for you to prepare the foods you love with ingredients that taste great.

Shop for healthy and nutritional eats at Food Lion in Hopkins and cook yourself a refreshing and low-cal meal.
Healthy eaters realize the importance of dairy in their diet. Make sure you're getting your fill of Vitamin D with dairy products from Food Lion.
Packed with essential nutrients, be sure to try walk away with some delicious fish for dinner.
When you're pulling long hours at the office, you don't want to come home and spend hours slaving over a hot stove. Fix that potential problem by exploring the frozen food options offered here.
Here you can find a wide selection of oil and vinegar for all of your cooking needs, such as sauces and dressings.
From freshly baked pastas to packaged noodles, Food Lion has all of your pasta necessities.
This store has all the supplies you need to make a scrumptious dessert when your tastebuds are calling.
If you need a quick and affordable lunch or dinner option, browse the selection of tasty TV dinners here.
Food Lion makes it easy to quench your thirst by stocking water for whenever you need it.
Whether you prefer coffee or tea, Food Lion offers options for both the coffee enthusiast and the tea lover.
If you're looking for beverages that will handle all your hydration needs, look no further. This drink will refresh, renew, and refuel your energy.
Going on a road trip or heading to the office? Easy to take anywhere, this snack will hold you over between any meal.
When you're just looking to open a can, heat it, and then eat, the canned food aisle at Food Lion offers you exactly just that kind of convenience.
When you visit here, you'll be able to host a veritable barbecue with so many different meats for sale.
Food Lion serves up the most delicious freshly-baked bread in town. Head on over and pick up a loaf today.
Feeling bold and creative? Dress up your next meal with some unique and tasty seasonings and spices from here.
Whether you cook it or eat it raw, the produce from Food Lion will be tasty no matter what.
Cereal doesn't have to be just for kids. If you are looking for a quick, easy, and tasty breakfast to get out the door, pick some up today.
If you plan on driving, you'll appreciate the great parking options nearby Food Lion.
So if you're looking for only the best ingredients to use in your cooking, look no further than Food Lion in Hopkins.

Find sweet and savory grocery items at Adams Grocery Store in Eastover and give into all of your personal cravings.
Stay healthy on the regular with the produce available here. It's super fresh and can be used with any meal.
Whether you're cooking for yourself or for your family, some canned goods from here are a great side choice for lunch or dinner.
Yogurt, cheese, milk? Do some or all of these sound great to you? Be a dairy fan and purchase some dairy products. They will keep you happy and healthy.
Adams Grocery Store is close to multiple parking options.
A great meal starts with a great grocery store. With a selection of trustworthy produce and exceptional goods, Adams Grocery Store will help feed you well in Eastover.

For the right tools to get your project finished quickly, you'll want to head to Mr Bunky's Restaurant and Market's hardware store in Eastover.
Planning a barbecue? Check out the selection of meat inventory here and go home with a range of tender meats.
Find a large array of bold and flavorful coffees and teas at Mr Bunky's Restaurant and Market and sip your way through tasty goodness.
You can never have enough canned goods stocked in your pantry. Pick some more up here.
For dairy lovers out there, this store does dairy right, so make sure to pick up some on your next trip.
Planning your meals for the week? Don't forget to pick up a loaf of freshly-baked bread from Mr Bunky's Restaurant and Market.
All your favorite cereals are stocked on the shelves here.
Have a gourmet meal without working away in the kitchen. Throw on your favorite TV show or movie and pop a frozen dinner in the microwave. You'll be happy you did!
This fixing adds that little something extra to any baked good, so include it in all of your favorite recipes.
Craft a flavorful meal with some of their gourmet seasonings and spices.
When you body needs hydration most, grab some drinks off the shelf.
Health-conscious eaters will love the wide selection of fish on hand.
Do you have a new pasta recipe that you've been dying to try? Pick up some noodles and treat yourself to a tasty dish.
When the heat gets the best of you, water is more important than ever. Cool off no matter where you are with a bottle from Mr Bunky's Restaurant and Market.
Add some produce to your next dinner plate for a delicious meal jam-packed with vitamins and nutrients.
Hungry for a tasty meal but don't have the time to spend in the kitchen? Frozen food is an easy solution.
If you're just getting into cooking, pick up some oil and vinegar from here and learn the basics of cooking with these necessities.
When you don't have time to grab lunch or dinner, these tasty snacks will hold you over until you can take a break.
Mr Bunky's Restaurant and Market is surrounded by endless parking options.
So next time something breaks in the house, fix it yourself with some new tools from Mr Bunky's Restaurant and Market in Eastover.

Fresh fare can be found at Fish Hole, where visitors seek to sample every seafood dish on the menu.
The food at Fish Hole is high-calorie, high-flavor, and highly-rated.
Fish Hole is located near endless parking options, allowing diners to find quick and easy parking.
The menu at Fish Hole is reasonably priced, with most items costing less than $30.

Your taste buds are calling for some down home American cooking from O'Kelly's.
When you're ready to pig out, O'Kelly's is ready to serve you the scrumptious food you're craving.
If you've got the car, then we've got parking for you.
Typical diners should plan to spend about $30 per person on O'Kelly's' moderately priced fare.

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“I'm not the kind of guy who's going to say ... ‘I only buy local ingredients,’” said Ryan McCaskey, the chef and founder of Chicago’s Michelin-starred Acadia. Instead, the James Beard Award–nominated chef sources many of his ingredients from Maine—and even sources his salmon from New Zealand.In so doing, he’s bucking the burgeoning farm-to-table trend. Chefs like Rick Bayless, Paul Kahan, and Paul Virant—three local luminaries who McCaskey thinks “do it right”—brought the locavore movement to Chicago’s attention. The simultaneous uptick in Chicago farms, especially on the South Side, have made local sourcing increasingly doable.McCaskey, though, hasn’t been converted. He views the local food movement as “a little bit of a double-edged sword.” We chatted about what he views as farm-to-table food movements’ pros and cons.Pro: Farm-to-table reminds him of his time in Maine.He called the state his “second home”—before opening Acadia, he honed his culinary skills at Goose Cove Lodge in Deer Isle—and the lifestyle there centered on local food. That meant daily markets, and “the produce and the food that you get in the local store comes from a farm down the street. [Often] people just come and knock on your door with fresh eggs, fresh chicken, some cheese they made.”McCaskey added, “We didn’t really think about it like, this is a trend. That’s how you live.” (He lived this lifestyle in '90s Maine but said it still endures to this day.)Pro: Local food can have a mysterious X-factor.McCaskey spent the year before his restaurant opened in “very remote parts of Africa.” Even eating three square meals a day, he ended up losing 15 pounds on his travels. “I ate like normal,” he said, still a little bewildered as to how it happened. He has a theory, though: “There’s nothing in their food. There’s no hormones, no weird sprays.” While he knows those non-organic touches are meant to protect consumers, he also hypothesizes that they make American food heavier than African meals.Pro: It’s “the way food should be.” McCaskey elaborated that to him, that means “less manipulated, in it's purest form, you know."Con: It's trendy.And McCaskey is skeptical of trends.“I'm not a big guy on trends and fads, really. Except for our ramen, I think everything else we do I just do it because I want to do it.”Con: Buzzwords can be a marketing ploy.McCaskey thinks that some chefs use words like “organic,” “local,” and “sustainable” to be viewed part of the Bayless cohort mentioned in the intro. “But they just can’t be, in my opinion,” McCaskey added. To be part of that cohort takes talent as well as sourcing savvy. Con: Quality matters more than location.“I just try to find the best,” McCaskey said. He elaborated that while mushrooms might grow in his backyard, he wouldn’t use them over more flavorful ones flown in from Florida.Con: Thoughtful sourcing should be assumed.“I know exactly where pretty much everything comes from on our menu,” McCaskey said. (He even knows the exact hill his blueberries grown on!) “But the thing is, I don't need to use it as a marketing tool because ... people just assume it's going to be really great product. People coming to eat at our restaurant, nobody I think would say, ‘Oh, they're using lesser grade eggs’ or something.”Top photo courtesy of Acadia RestaurantRead more from award-winning chefs:Sean Brock's three key tenets to Southern cookingJoanne Chang's five essential baking tools

Every time chef Emeril Lagasse says “Bam!”, he wins a new culinary award. Or at least, that’s how it can seem. The star chef has won a James Beard Award, an Ivy Award, and been featured in a Smithsonian exhibit. It’s no wonder he runs 10+ restaurants, is always on TV, and typically just goes by “Emeril”—a trick previously reserved for Madonna.During our chat with him, in celebration of Groupon's Summer Tastes, we discovered one of Emeril’s rare non-culinary secrets: he’s a great storyteller. Check out a selection of his stories and snacking secrets below.GROUPON: You first started learning to cook from your mom, Hilda. What did she teach you that you still use today?EMERIL: Calde verde soup. It’s a Portuguese kale soup that is still an essential in my house. My kids ask me all the time to make it and it always brings back a lot of memories. Soups in general are incredibly comforting to me and remind me of my mom and early days cooking together.G: Who is a celebrity, in the food world or outside of it, who’s made you starstruck?E: Julia Child had me starstruck the first time we met. She is a culinary icon who was one of my first mentors. I was working at the Parker House when I first met her. She came in unannounced and wanted me to cook for her. I could definitely feel the pressure but was honored to be able to cook for her.G: What’s a not-super-healthy indulgence you’ll never give up?E: Potato chips, in particular plain Zapp’s potato chips. And they are the best when they are frozen.G: Through your foundation, you do a lot of work with disadvantaged kids. What’s the most surprising thing they’ve taught you about “kids these days”?E: Kids are very resilient and inherently have a positive attitude. I find it so rewarding to help provide tools and resources and empower kids to follow their passions. It’s about helping kids create lasting habits to take with them in whatever endeavors they explore. Kids these days have so many options and opportunities but we have to help them achieve a strong foundation and confidence in order for them to realize these potentials.G: When you’re in New Orleans and not at your own restaurants, what are some of your favorites to dine at?E: New Orleans has so many new restaurants and dining options. Some of my staples that I always go back to are The Galley Seafood (they have a killer seafood boil), Pho Tau Bay (they are currently in the process of relocating, but they serve the best Vietnamese I’ve ever had), and Domilise’s Poboy’s (best poboys in the city).G: What’s an easy way to “kick up” a meal?E: Visit your local wine store and have your wine merchant suggest pairings that will go well with the dishes you’ve selected. This will elevate the meal to more of an event. (Another good trick is to finish savory dishes with a light sprinkling of flaky sea salt or fresh herbs.)G: What is a kitchen tool that most home cooks don’t have, but should?E: A Japanese mandoline. These are inexpensive, easy to store, don’t take up too much space, and allow you to make paper thin slices and/or perfectly uniform julienne of vegetables and fruits.

When I moved from Los Angeles to Chicago, I was surprised to find that what I missed most about my hometown was not the beaches, the mountains, or the uniformly great weather. It was the donuts. Five years and 5,000 half-assed old-fashioneds later, I’ve had time to reflect on why no other American city even comes close to topping LA’s donut game. From Randy’s in Inglewood to Stan’s in Westwood—and all the mom-and-pop shops in between—here are nine reasons why the best donuts in Los Angeles are also the best donuts period.1. A giant donut is literally the first thing you see when you’re flying into the airport.There’s no getting around the fact that LAX is a miserable place. But before visitors to this fair city are greeted with an hour of runway taxiing and searching for lost baggage, they get to feast their eyes on the massive donut that resides permanently atop Randy’s Donuts (805 W. Manchester Blvd.). Brothers Ron and Larry Weintraub co-own this landmark shop, which has appeared in such cinematic masterpieces as Earth Girls are Easy and Volcano. The drive-thru is open 24 hours—just in case you caught the redeye—and the classic jelly is better than any donut in your city.2. It’s not overrun by mediocre chains.Chain donut shops are fine, especially if you’re craving a sad, wilting maple bar and a scalding hot cup of America’s Most Overrated Coffee. But, hey, you know what’s even better? Pretty much every donut shop in Los Angeles. Bostonians may pride themselves on supporting the Big National Chain, but LA—like much of California—has staunchly resisted its intrusion for years. Drive through the city, and you’ll find a mom-and-pop donut shop on nearly every corner. Sure, they may not all be great, but you won’t know that until you try them. Think of it as playing the lottery with the odds stacked in your favor.3. You can get Chinese food and donuts under one roof.If you’ve lived in LA for any reasonable amount of time, you’ve likely stumbled across a shop that sells Chinese food alongside donuts. These small, hole-in-the-wall establishments may owe to the influx of Cambodian immigrants in the 1970s, though their donuts tend to be of the standard American variety. They’re also incredibly inexpensive, so it makes good economic sense to substitute a glazed cruller for a side of white rice. Check out Mom’s Donuts & Chinese Food (601 N. Silver Lake Blvd.) in Silver Lake and discover why LA really is the city where dreams come true.4. “Gourmet” donuts are a stupid fad, but LA even has those.Putting bacon on your donut is a sign of insecurity, and charging $4 for the resulting abomination should be a crime worthy of arrest. It’s not that experimentation is bad, per se, but sometimes a good thing just doesn’t need to be gussied up. The people of LA seem to know this intuitively, which is why you can still find a no-fuss, 50-cent donut everywhere you look. If you have special dietary restrictions, you can always hit up a vegan spot like Breakaway Bakery (5264 W. Pico Blvd.), but here’s a rule to live by: the best donuts belong in your belly, not on Instagram. 5. Shhh. The best donut shop in Chicago is an LA donut shop in disguise.If you live in Chicago, maybe you’ve visited a Stan’s Donuts recently. And while you were there, maybe you thought to yourself, “This is a good donut place.” You were right! But at its jelly-filled core, Stan’s in Chicago is really just a dressed-up version of the original Stan’s (10948 Weyburn Ave.), an unassuming stand in Westwood that’s been churning out the hits since 1965. 6. When New York bakers tried to get all meta-donut, LA beat 'em at their own game.By now you’ve surely heard of the cronut, the half-croissant, half-donut hybrid invented by Chef Dominique Ansel in his New York bakery. Is the cronut necessary? Of course not. But New Yorkers have this annoying habit of thinking they’re the best at everything, so LA was forced to take the cronut and make it even better. Hence the brûléed crullant from Semi Sweet Bakery (105 E. 6th St.) , a cruller-croissant that comes topped with two layers of brûléed sugar. In the low-budget class, the clear winner is the $2 faux-nut from California Donuts (3540 W. 3rd St.). Hey, New York, can you make a $2 cronut?7. Potato flour donuts are common in LA and nearly impossible to find elsewhere.Donuts made with potato flour were once not all that uncommon. Sold under the franchise name of Spudnuts, these donuts could be found everywhere from Alaska to the American South, but the parent company shut down in the late 1970s and independent stores gradually followed suit. Except in LA, that is, where Spudnuts is very much alive and ready to answer the burning question of “What does a potato donut taste like?” (Not like french fries, strangely enough).8. Most LA donut shops are open late, and plenty of them never close.Donuts are fatty, sugary, and inexpensive, which means they’re the perfect food to eat when your inhibitions leave you at 4 a.m. Thankfully, LA has no shortage of donut shops open 24 hours, including the aforementioned Randy’s and California Donuts.9. A donut bought in LA is a victory for the American Dream.There are plenty of reasons to crown LA the donut capital of the world—so many, in fact, that it’s almost silly to even be having this conversation. But the most compelling reasons lie in what kind of country we want America to be. Do we want to live in a country where a hardworking, ever-smiling couple like Ralph and Celia Primo (Primo’s Donuts, 2918 Sawtelle Blvd.) can battle the big chains and emerge victorious? Do we want to live in a country where you can exchange a single dollar bill for the best damn donut of your life? If your answer is “Yes!”, then come to LA. And look out for Randy’s on your way in.Photo illustrations by Mark Mills, GrouponDig in to these other delicious reads:Celebrate Pi Day with Six of America's Best Pies
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